A Writer's Desk

The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey. Is there anything better for Halloween? Also, other creepy bits... In the New York Observer, there...

The Guardian has noted this morning that Harper Lee, reclusive author of one of my all-time favorite books, To Kill a Mockingbird , has been...

318 of them, from 1899 to the present.

Taking a page from Radiohead, where the group is selling their new album, In Rainbows , directly to fans, asking said fans (which are legion...

The death knell for newspapers has been ringing time and time again these past few years as more and more people get their news via other so...

The imminent Oliver Sacks has a new book out, Musicophilia , and so there's oodles of interest in all things Sacks lately... NPR has an ...

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

How's this for unusual? Via the Daily Dickinson, using her poetry for architectural renderings .

Steve Martin, one of my heroes, has a couple of books coming out... Born Standing Up is an autobiography where he talks about the comic...

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I've always been fascinated, not obsessed, but extremely intrigued by the story of fabled hijacker D.B. Cooper. For those who may not k...

There's some good news, via the New York Post, that one of my favorite magazines, American Heritage, is coming back . I started pitching...

Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon (honestly the best bookstore in the country) has a great website. I just stumbled upon their Original...

Each week I enter the New Yorker Caption Contest. I was robbed this last time! Check out the Cartoon Caption Contest #117 . Me and Elizabeth...

Damn Interesting takes a look at the life and times of Alexander Selkirk . The man, and his trials and tribulations, inspired Robert Louis S...

Start your work week off with a guffaw. Check out The Comics Curmudgeon , where he highlights daily comics and then brutally criticizes them...

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

I had an earlier post where I mentioned my Top Ten Favorite Blogs. I then thought to myself, can I distill all my favorite websites into a ...

Care to take some writing , literature , linguistic , or most any other course at M.I.T. for free? Well, my friend, now is your chance.

A great photographer who illustrated life in the segregated South in the 50s and 60s died recently in Memphis, Tennessee.